Bismarck Sea

Bismarck Sea

A section of the southwest Pacific Ocean northeast of New Guinea and northwest of New Britain. During World War II it was the site of a major naval battle (March 2-3, 1943) in which a Japanese convoy was almost completely destroyed.

The newly assembled Auxiliary Cutter (AC), is the third and final seafloor production tool (SPT) being built for Nautilus Minerals for polymetallic sulphides (also called seafloor massive sulphides) mining at its Solwara 1 deposit in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea.

The governor of that capital city appoints retired British military police officer Will Prior to investigate the death, so he travels to "tranquil Kabakon, one of the safe, forgotten islands that lay between New Britain and New Ireland in the deep and ancient waters off the Bismarck Sea.

In Nautilus's Solwara 1 claim in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a seafloor "surface mine" covering just over a tenth of a square kilometre, the company has calculated an ore body of more than three million tonnes, including 200,000 tonnes of copper and 480,000 grams of gold.

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